A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

Cassandra Clare

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Matt Groening

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb

It's not about the press. It's not about the notoriety or the celebrity status or anything like that. To me, it's all about driving the race car.

Greg Moore

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

W. Somerset Maugham

Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful

Allan Lokos

The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

Aldo Leopold

He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.

H. Seton Merriman

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

W. H. Sheldon

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

M. Night Shyamalan

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

James Fallows